Is BlackBerry Hub Right-handed Only?

It might seem like a small point, but after watching the new preview/demo videos from BB Jam Americas, it seems like the BlackBerry Hub experience in BB10 is now a "right-handers" only sort of flow. Unless the Hub can be customized to pull out from either side, I don't expect that opening the messaging app will be as intuitive or comfortable for those of us trying to "push" it open with our left hands.

As CrackBerry Kevin said himself, he likes the change because it now seems like you can just push the other apps out of the way to uncover the BB Hub instead of pulling it on-screen. This seems like its only true if you use your phone with your right hand...

It might seem like a small point, but after watching the new preview/demo videos from BB Jam Americas, it seems like the BlackBerry Hub experience in BB10 is now a "right-handers" only sort of flow. Unless the Hub can be customized to pull out from either side, I don't expect that opening the messaging app will be as intuitive or comfortable for those of us trying to "push" it open with our left hands.

As CrackBerry Kevin said himself, he likes the change because it now seems like you can just push the other apps out of the way to uncover the BB Hub instead of pulling it on-screen. This seems like its only true if you use your phone with your right hand...

Comments?
Anyone have any knowledge or opinions about this?

-BB Bryan

As a left-handed person, this concerns me too....I'm loving what I've seen of BB10 so far that I might be willing to become right-handed just so I can use this phone!

I don't think it will be that big an issue...u can swipe directly up from the bottom left of the screen and then your thumb doesn't have to carry as far out to the right to go into the hub.

I am also left handed but this is not a concern for me.
I do not think that it will make a difference either way to be honest.
Just take your current phone and do the gesture. I tried it on my Torch 9810 and it didn't feel weird or anything.
I am excited for BB10!!!

Note that there are other ways to open the hub as well. One is to minimize the app, which brings you to the home screen, and then simply tap on the little icon just above the action bar, the left-most one, which jumps you to the hub without any more swiping involved.

I spent some time yesterday playing with the Dev Alpha and exploring various capabilities including typing, peeking, the home screen and icon tabs, etc.

I used my left hand for all of this.

As near as I can tell, as a right-handed person, there's not really any discernable disadvantage in being left-handed... some gestures involve "pulling" your thumb, while others involve "pushing" it across the screen. Whether you're right- or left-handed, you'll end up doing both, and if you've tried both you may agree with me that neither one is particularly difficult compared to the other.

If your only using your thumb why would it matter what hand you use? I don't think its built for one hand or the other. As long as you can move your thumb from right to left and left to right you shouldn't have a problem.

If your only using your thumb why would it matter what hand you use? I don't think its built for one hand or the other. As long as you can move your thumb from right to left and left to right you shouldn't have a problem.

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To open the hub, swipe from bottom then to the right (whatever is open or on start screen). I've been testing with either thumb and this looks no issue to me. But maybe I didn't get the whole thing ?

Re: Is BlackBerry Hub Right-handed Only?

Well, let me ask you if your BlackBerry GREEN button is or the right side, and the RED button is on the left side, and the VOLUME buttons are on the left side?
And the charger port, is on your RIGHT side?

Re: Is BlackBerry Hub Right-handed Only?

Originally Posted by calicocat2010

I am right handed, but I hold my phone in my left hand, lol. It won't matter to me.

I thought I was the only one that did this. Glad to see I'm not alone.

While I think the gesture itself will be easy enough either way, I think your thumb might be in the way of the hub when quickly peeking at the hub. I hope they have a setting to allow use in either hand, but I think it won't be a big deal if they don't.

what about countries reading from right to left

Localisation effort shall push supporting this, disregarding being left handed or right handed. The thing is I have hard time getting the gesture right on my dev alpha when using the left hand so that I often have to switch to the right hand (I'm amb, and stretching outwards the thumb seems a bit less easier the inwards.

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